Not talking abt the individual schools, this is the SEC office itself. They flew the Alligiant MD-83 through the teeth of a Cat 1 hurricane from College Station to BHM after the Alabama-Texas A&M game after Alabama's Delta charter left almost immediately after the game to beat the worst of the hurricane winds back to Tuscaloosa-they landed during a lull in the storm & departed Tuscaloosa w/in 45 minutes of arriving.
The second incident was after Auburn played @ Arkansas. The Auburn team plane departed just ahead of a very severe line of storms arrived @ XNA but the SEC charter was delayed two, maybe three hours then had to fly South to San Antonio just to get around the line of storms. Playing w/fire IMO.

Never have understood why the SouthEastern Conference charters an Alligiant MD-83 for select football games. The SEC has all kinds of money & could charter from a first rate airline w/afar better safety record.

The starting offensive line alone for my college football team is around 3,000 pounds sans QB. Add in 75-100 other players, coaching staff, cheerleaders, other staff, wives, & miscellaneous equipment & bags usually warrants a 757-200 from a 6500 foot runway. Heavier equipment travels in a semi truck dispatched the previous night. Post season trips (playoffs) usually warrant an A333 or 767 from the airport that has a longer runway 60 miles up the road. A recent trip to the Championship game required a 747 for everyone involved.

The original script had "Dallas" instead of Vega's. As Dr. Strangelove came out immediately after JFK's Assassination, it was changed to "Vegas" so the still raw wounds & memories wouldn't be reopened.

President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.